Advancements in technology regularly influence the healthcare field and developing aspects on medical patient safety. Implementing electronic health records, decision support systems, and computerized physician order entry systems reduces risk in the potential for e-health to make errors leading to adverse events.

E-Health Technologies and Improving Patient Safety: Exploring Organizational Factors presents an overview on information and communication technologies and addresses the impacts on the field of both patient safety and e-health. This book offers insightful perspectives and concentrated research on concepts related to these areas, as well as issues and current trends in patient safety in e-health.

E-Health Technologies and Improving Patient Safety: Exploring Organizational Factors contains 17 chapters by biology, public health, health informatics, technology, biomedicine, cytopathology, and other researchers from the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and Australia, who discuss the use of e-health technologies to improve patient safety. They address the inclusion of uncertainty as a dimension of performance to promote evaluation of healthcare services quality, medical error, the implementation of electronic health records, telemedicine network organizations, decision support systems, a healthcare process execution engine, barcode technology, radiofrequency identification technologies, grid technology, simulation, tailored health communication, and technologies to aid in human papilloma virus detection, sleep electroencephalograms, and understanding leukemia proliferation.

Table of Contents

1. Learning to Accept Uncertainty as a Quality of Care Dimension
Vahé A. Kazandjian (Aralez Health LLC, USA & The Johns Hopkins University, USA)

2. Avoiding Adverse Consequences of E-Health
Shane O’Hanlon (University of Limerick, Ireland)

3. Essential Steps for Successful Implementation of the EHR to Achieve Sustainable, Safe, Quality Care
Bonnie Wesorick (Elsevier CPM Resource Center, USA)

4. Improving Patient Safety with Telemedicine: Exploring Organizational Factors
I. H. Monrad Aas (Research Unit, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Norway)

5. Decision Support Systems in the Process of Improving Patient Safety
Jan Kalina (Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic), Jana Zvárová (Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic)

6. E-Health Decision Support Systems for the Diagnosis of Dementia Diseases
Isabella Castiglioni (Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council, Italy), Maria Carla Gilardi (Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council, Italy), Francesca Gallivanone (Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council, Italy)

7. SEMantic PATHways: Modeling, Executing, and Monitoring Intra-Organizational Healthcare Business Processes towards Personalized Treatment
Dimitrios Al. Alexandrou (UBITECH Research, Greece & National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Konstantinos V. Pardalis (UBITECH Research, Greece)

8. Use of Barcodes to Improve Safety in Healthcare
Hing-Yu So (Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong)

9. RFID Technologies in the Health Sector
Alessia D’Andrea (Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council Rome, Italy), Fernando Ferri (Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council Rome, Italy), Patrizia Grifoni (Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council Rome, Italy)

10. Grid Technology for Archive Solutions in Health Care Organizations
Pietro Previtali (University of Pavia, Italy)

11. The Use of Medical Simulation to Improve Patient Safety
Stuart Marshall (Monash University, Australia), Jennifer Hogan (Monash Simulation, Southern Health)

12. PINATA: Taking E-Health a Step Forward
Alexiei Dingli (University of Malta, Malta), Charlie Abela (University of Malta, Malta), Ilenia D’Ambrogio (University of Malta, Malta)

13. HPV Detection: Current Status and Future Goals for Personalized Prevention
Aris Spathis (University General Hospital “ATTIKON”, Greece), Stavros Archondakis (401 Army General Hospital, Greece), Petros Karakitsos (University General Hospital “ATTIKON”, Greece)

14. Assessment and Confidence Estimates of Newborn Brain Maturity from Sleep EEG
V. Schetinin (University of Bedfordshire, UK), L. Jakaite (University of Bedfordshire, UK)

15. Systems Modeling of Proliferation Mechanisms in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
George I. Lambrou (University of Athens, Greece), Apostolos Zaravinos (University of Athens, Greece), Maria Adamaki (University of Athens, Greece), Spiros Vlahopoulos (University of Athens, Greece)

16. An Ontology-Driven Approach to Clinical Evidence Modeling Implementing Clinical Prediction Rules
Derek Corrigan (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), Lucy Hederman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Haseeb Khan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Adel Taweel (Kings College London, UK), Olga Kostopoulou (Kings College London, UK), Brendan Delaney (Kings College London, UK)

17. Risk Perception as a Patient Safety Dimension
Anastasius Moumtzoglou (P. & A. Kyriakou Children’s Hospital, Greece)

Topics Covered:

• Decision
• E-Health
• Electronic health records
• Healthcare organizations
• Improving patient safety
• Medical simulation
• RFID technologies
• Support systems
• Telemedicine